Day two of our lunch with the ladies tour, Le Beaulieu is just around the corner from where we were staying at Suk 11 so it was just a quick albeit hair raising scooter taxi ride away. We're a bit early so we just kick around in the reception area for a bit before being ushered in.
One wall of the restaurant is a large window into the kitchen, great for guests not so for chefs..
Once again the seats are quickly filled by Japanese housewives (I think they are single handedly supporting Bangkok's restaurants). We are given a menu with the wickedly great lunch deals, three courses with three choices of each for 450 baht, sweet.
We quickly make our choices, with a basket of fresh baked bread to keep us company while we wait.
We started off with baked cheese feuillete with organic salad and balsamic and an onion tart with rocket and truffle cream. Mmm melty cheese wrapped in puff pastry, the tart was topped with a wisp of truffle infused foam.
For our second choices we had a traditional bouillabaisse marseillaise with rouille and garlic bread, a decent piece of white fish and squid sitting in a pool of rich seafood broth, along side a generous slice of toasted garlic bread and rouille to make the dish even more rich.
The braised beef neck, fresh fettuccine and herbs was another super rich dish, large chunks of tender fall apart beef piled over a mound of fresh noodles, while it was delicious it was quite impossible to finish being so rich.
Whilst I was now starting to feel full Kat being in possession of the second dessert stomach that all women have was ready as our desserts arrived. White chocolate Charlotte with fresh fruit, a slice of the Charlotte laid on the plate and topped with macerated fresh fruit.
The other a freshly baked apple tart vanilla bean ice cream, you can't go wrong with that. A disk of pastry topped with thinly sliced and baked apples and soft ice cream slowly melting its way down over it all.
Really for these prices you can't complain, so I won't.
Le Beaulieu
We started off with baked cheese feuillete with organic salad and balsamic and an onion tart with rocket and truffle cream. Mmm melty cheese wrapped in puff pastry, the tart was topped with a wisp of truffle infused foam.
For our second choices we had a traditional bouillabaisse marseillaise with rouille and garlic bread, a decent piece of white fish and squid sitting in a pool of rich seafood broth, along side a generous slice of toasted garlic bread and rouille to make the dish even more rich.
The braised beef neck, fresh fettuccine and herbs was another super rich dish, large chunks of tender fall apart beef piled over a mound of fresh noodles, while it was delicious it was quite impossible to finish being so rich.
Whilst I was now starting to feel full Kat being in possession of the second dessert stomach that all women have was ready as our desserts arrived. White chocolate Charlotte with fresh fruit, a slice of the Charlotte laid on the plate and topped with macerated fresh fruit.
The other a freshly baked apple tart vanilla bean ice cream, you can't go wrong with that. A disk of pastry topped with thinly sliced and baked apples and soft ice cream slowly melting its way down over it all.
Really for these prices you can't complain, so I won't.
Le Beaulieu
